Day -20: Five sevens

Five nines, I read somewhere (probably something by David Cay Johnston), is the reliability level of landline telephone service -- 99.999 percent. Five eights was the account number in Rogue Trader, which has nothing to do with Warhammmer 40,000 but did star Ewan MacGregor.

Once I shifted Sanctuary into the reading plan, that brought my total pages to five sevens: 77,777 pages. It's a bullshit number at that level of specifity, because three books don't even have page counts yet so they just have placeholder figures. No matter. The number is staying. Once I got there a couple weeks ago I decided that I would add no more books until it starts on January 1.